2012 Summer Olympics / Swimming - 200m Freestyle (Men)

sport	swim
discipline	200 meters freestyle
gender	Men
place	London Aquatics Center
Attendees	40 athletes from 32 countries
Competition phase	29./30. July 2012

The contest over 200 meters freestyle men at the 2012 Olympics in London on 29 and 30 July 2012 at the London Aquatics Center held. 33 athletes took part.

There were six preliminary runs. The 16 fastest swimmers of all heats qualified for the two semi-finals that were held on the same day. Here too, the finalists qualified by setting the eight fastest times in both semi-finals.

Abbreviations:
WR = world record, OR = Olympic record, NR = national record
ER = European record , NAR = North American record , SAR = South American record, ASR = Asian record, AFR = African record, OZR = Oceania record

Existing records

World record	Paul Biedermann ( Germany )	1: 42.00 min	Rome , Italy	July 28, 2009
Olympic record	Michael Phelps ( United States )	1: 42.96 min	Beijing , People's Republic of China	August 12, 2008

Title holder

Olympic champion	Michael Phelps ( United States )	1: 42.96 min	Beijing 2008
World Champion	Ryan Lochte ( United States )	1: 44.44 min	Shanghai 2011
European champion	Paul Biedermann ( Germany )	1: 46.27 min	Debrecen 2012

leader

Forward 1

July 29, 2012

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Nicholas Schwab	Dominican Republic	1: 53.41 min	NO
2	Gilles Marquet	Mauritius	1: 58.91 min
3	Anderson Lim	Brunei	2: 02.26 min	NO

Forward 2

July 29, 2012

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Matias Koski	Finland	1: 49.84 min
2	Radovan Siljevski	Serbia	1: 51.40 min
3	Mario Montoya	Costa Rica	1: 51.66 min
4th	Sebastián Jahnsen	Peru	1: 52.36 min
5	Jessie Lacuna	Philippines	1: 52.91 min
6th	Raúl Martínez	Puerto Rico	1: 54.23 min

Forward 3

July 29, 2012

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Blake Worsley	Canada	1: 48.14 min
2	Nimrod Shapira Bar-Or	Israel	1: 48.60 min
3	Cristian Quintero	Venezuela	1: 48.71 min
4th	Glenn Surgeloose	Belgium	1: 48.77 min
5	David Brandl	Austria	1: 49.00 min
6th	Ahmed Mathlouthi	Tunisia	1: 49.68 min
7th	Tiago Venâncio	Portugal	1: 52.36 min
-	Mads Glæsner	Denmark	DNS

Forward 4

July 29, 2012

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Danila Isotov	Russia	1: 46.61 min
2	Robert Renwick	United Kingdom	1: 46.86 min
3	Paul Biedermann	Germany	1: 47.27 min
4th	Grégory Mallet	France	1: 47.39 min
5	Dominik Meichtry	Switzerland	1: 47.97 min
6th	Ieuan Lloyd	United Kingdom	1: 48.52 min
7th	Clemens Rapp	Germany	1: 48.75 min
8th	Marco Belotti	Italy	1: 49.14 min

Forward 5

July 29, 2012

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Sun Yang	People's Republic of China	1: 46.24 min
2	Ryan Lochte	United States	1: 46.45 min
3	Ricky Berens	United States	1: 47.07 min
4th	Dominik Kozma	Hungary	1: 47.18 min
5	Brett Fraser	Cayman Islands	1: 47.74 min
6th	Li Yunqi	People's Republic of China	1: 48.72 min
7th	Ben Hockin	Paraguay	1: 48.91 min
8th	Dion Dreesens	Netherlands	1: 49.00 min

Ben Hockin, whose father is British, was a member of the British 4-100m freestyle relay at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing .

Forward 6

July 29, 2012

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Yannick Agnel	France	1: 46.60 min
2	Tae-hwan Park	South Korea	1: 46.79 min
3	Kenrick Monk	Australia	1: 46.94 min
4th	Sebastiaan Verschuren	Netherlands	1: 47.31 min
5	Thomas Fraser-Holmes	Australia	1: 47.50 min
6th	Artyom Lobusov	Russia	1: 47.91 min
7th	Matthew Stanley	New Zealand	1: 48.19 min
8th	Shaune Fraser	Cayman Islands	1: 48.53 min

Shaune and Brett Fraser from the Cayman Islands are brothers.

Semifinals

Run 1

July 29, 2012

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Paul Biedermann	Germany	1: 46.10 min
2	Ryan Lochte	United States	1: 46.31 min
3	Robert Renwick	United Kingdom	1: 46.65 min
	Danila Isotov	Russia	1: 46.65 min
5	Ricky Berens	United States	1: 46.87 min
6th	Brett Fraser	Cayman Islands	1: 47.01 min
7th	Grégory Mallet	France	1: 47.56 min
8th	Dominik Meichtry	Switzerland	1: 48.25 min

Run 2

July 29, 2012

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Sun Yang	People's Republic of China	1: 45.61 min
2	Yannick Agnel	France	1: 45.84 min
3	Tae-hwan Park	South Korea	1: 46.02 min
4th	Thomas Fraser-Holmes	Australia	1: 46.80 min
5	Dominik Kozma	Hungary	1: 46.93 min
6th	Sebastiaan Verschuren	Netherlands	1: 46.95 min
7th	Kenrick Monk	Australia	1: 47.38 min
8th	Artyom Lobusov	Russia	1: 48.26 min

final

July 30, 2012, 7:43 p.m. CET

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Yannick Agnel	France	1: 43.14 min	NO
2	Sun Yang	People's Republic of China	1: 44.93 min	NO
	Tae-hwan Park	South Korea	1: 44.93 min
4th	Ryan Lochte	United States	1: 45.04 min
5	Paul Biedermann	Germany	1: 45.53 min
6th	Robert Renwick	United Kingdom	1: 46.53 min
7th	Thomas Fraser-Holmes	Australia	1: 46.93 min
8th	Danila Isotov	Russia	1: 47.75 min

There was a dead race between Yang and Tae-hwan, both struck at the same time. The silver medal was thus awarded twice, the bronze medal was dropped.
Agnel achieved the first French Olympic victory on this route, Yang won the first medal for China in this discipline.
The Frenchman swam the third fastest time ever swum on this distance. Only world record holder Biedermann and the Olympic champion from Beijing, Michael Phelps, were faster.

Picture gallery

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  Olympic champion Yannick Agnel (FRA)

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  Park Tae-hwan (KOR), winner of the silver medal

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  Ryan Lochte (USA) just missed the medal ranks and took 4th place in the final

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  Ricky Berens (USA) fails in the semifinals

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  The German champion Paul Biedermann reached 5th place in the final

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  Nimrod Shapira Bar-Or (ISR) does not get past the lead

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  Clemens Rapp (GER) fails in the preliminary run

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  David Brandl (AUT) retires in the preliminary run

Web links

• Olympic Summer Games 2012 / Swimming - 200 m freestyle in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Report by Swimmingworld Magazine from July 30, 2012 (English) ( Memento of the original from May 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.